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At any given age women’s brains were younger, metabolically speaking, than men’sWolfgang Kaehler/LightRocket via Getty By New Scientist Staff and Press Association Women have younger brains than men the same age. A study basing age on metabolism rather than birth date found an average 3.8 year difference between men and women. The discovery may help explain… Read More »

Print this page MONDAY, Feb. 4, 2019 — “Boys will be boys” goes the old saying, but girls might have the last laugh. It turns out that female brains tend to age more slowly, researchers report. On average, women’s brains appear to be about three years younger than those of men at the same chronological… Read More »

For the past two decades, scientists have been exploring the genetics of schizophrenia, autism and other brain disorders, looking for a path toward causation. If the biological roots of such ailments could be identified, treatments might follow, or at least tests that could reveal a person’s risk level. In the 1990s, researchers focused on genes… Read More »